Report on the excavations at Enkomi, 1955–1958Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

The stratigraphy can be summarised as follows: [handwritten: 1] 1. Surface earth. 0 to 0,50 [handwritten: m.] 2. Ash and hard white layer (Floor I). 0,50 to 0,55 [handwritten: m.] 3. Greyish earth. 0,55 to 1,00 [handwritten: m.] 4. Black ash and burnt clay (Floor II). 1,00 to 1,20 [handwritten: m.] 5. Reddish earth, with horizontal sherds. 1,20 to 1,25 [handwritten: m.] 6. Ash (Floor III). 1.25 to 1,30 [handwritten: m.] 7. Reddish earth with pottery. 1,30 to 1,40 [handwritten: m.] 8. Superimposition of hard burnt earth, ash, burnt limestone and gravel (Floor IV). 1,40 to 1,50 [handwritten: m.] 9. Heap of stones with gaps. 1,50 to 1,90 [handwritten: m.] 10. White floor (Floor V). 1,90 to 2,00 [handwritten: m.] 11. Rock, virgin soil, except for a pocket of greenish earth. 2,00 [handwritten: m.]

The surface layer, with Floor I, between 0,50 and 0,55 [handwritten: m.] contains mixed material, but mostly from the beginning of the Iron Age. In the western part of the room, there were found, placed on this floor, a rectangular terracotta barcasse of 0,70 x 0,45 m., a storage jar and a basalt quern.

Floor II, with the use layer above it, was poor in remains; rare sherds of Iron I and a flat biconical bead of polished black stone (Pt. 12) at 1 m. [handwritten: 4] depth.

Floor III corresponds to the arrangement of the last state of the house: the room has a median row of pillar bases; the one to the south is cylindrical, with a deep groove near the top, the one to the north is square. The material is fairly abundant: to the west, five olive-shaped clay sling bullets (Pt. 67, 1,25 [handwritten: m.]), cylindrical clay loom weights of green unfired clay, a polished bone stylus and a jar with ogival base; nearer the quadrangular pillar, two bowls with small ring foot, horizontal handles and flaring rim, with "wavy line" type decoration in black on light ground (Inv. no. 18 and 70 [handwritten: non]), a "bucchero" jug and a polished bone stylus (Pt. 16, 1,30 [handwritten: m.]); a storage jar with two handles and rounded base of the "stumpy base" type, a carinated bowl, a neckless jar, a hammer of polished black stone and a pebble of grey granite, roughly dressed, with traces of hammering. Numerous sherds were scattered on the floor, including a carinated cup with bichrome black-red-black decoration.